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Clinton became convinced that Nixon would take Hammerschmidt down with him, and he began to canvass his new friends in and around the university for a candidate to run against Hammerschmidt -- he wanted a Democrat who planned to live permanently in the district. But when no one else would do it, he announced his own candidacy. As a young law professor with '60s-style hair, a Yale and Oxford background and liberal cohorts from the university on his team, he should have been an easy loser in this enclave of the state's few Republicans. But he ran surprisingly well...
Dalma Heyn's study of unfaithful wives begins promisingly with a startling canvass of literature's most famous adulteresses. From Anna Karenina to Emma Bovary, the cheating woman pays a steep price for her unchecked sexuality: she winds up dead. "What if she were your best friend, or your sister?" Heyn challenges. "Would you still need to see her punished?" Heyn, it seems in her opening pages, is going to vivisect the biases that continue to hold women to a different sexual standard from men. Oh boy, I think with post-Murphy Brown glee. Dan Quayle is going to hate...
...blocks away, in the Manchester headquarters for the Harkin campaign, Andrew Morin is looking for some volunteers. "Is anybody up for a straight lit drop?" he cries. Three college students just back from canvassing raise their hands: yes, they'll do a lit drop, but they need a ride. Volunteers keep returning from assignments and Morin's job is to get them back to work. Every five minutes he comes around: how'd you like to phone bank? how'd you like to canvass? you guys want to do some visibility...
There is a six-foot-high map of Manchester on the wall with polling places circled in red. Next to the map is taped the battle plan for the final week of this campaign. Wednesday: all day canvass with phone banks. Thursday: yard sign blitz, last day to fax list of identified supporters to Concord office. Friday: field continues to throw decks and fold in new supporters, focus on plant gates. Saturday: GOTV (get out the vote) efforts continue. Election day: ward coordinators meet at targeted polling place, dispatchers come on duty and forward rider requests to drivers, maintain visibility...
Field Office Coordinator David Brown encouraged that notion as he met with students from Boston-area colleges who had volunteered to canvass Salem neighborhoods...